Terry McAuliffe Spreads Stolen-Election Conspiracy Theory

Terry McAuliffe is at it again. On Sunday he openly embraced yet another stolen-election conspiracy theory rather than admit that his party legitimately lost an election. This time, it was the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia:

This is a lie. As we have covered extensively here, there is no evidence of actual Georgia voters being unable to cast ballots in 2018, and certainly not in the numbers needed to make a difference to Kemp’s 55,000-vote margin of victory or even the 8,700-vote margin by which Kemp exceeded Georgia’s runoff threshold. Updating the voter rolls by removing dormant registrations does not “disenfranchise” voters; it is necessary in order to keep the rolls accurate and up to date, as many people move or die every year. For that reason purges of old names from the list is required by federal law, and typically is permitted by federal courts. It is also required by Georgia law. The 2002 Help America Vote Act, the federal enactment that currently governs that process, passed Congress (including a Democrat-controlled Senate) with extensive bipartisan support at a time when McAuliffe was the chairman of the Democratic Party.

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Terry McAuliffe is at it again. On Sunday he openly embraced yet another stolen-election conspiracy theory rather than admit that his party legitimately lost an election. This time, it was the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia:

This is a lie. As we have covered extensively here, there is no evidence of actual Georgia voters being unable to cast ballots in 2018, and certainly not in the numbers needed to make a difference to Kemp’s 55,000-vote margin of victory or even the 8,700-vote margin by which Kemp exceeded Georgia’s runoff threshold. Updating the voter rolls by removing dormant registrations does not “disenfranchise” voters; it is necessary in order to keep the rolls accurate and up to date, as many people move or die every year. For that reason purges of old names from the list is required by federal law, and typically is permitted by federal courts. It is also required by Georgia law. The 2002 Help America Vote Act, the federal enactment that currently governs that process, passed Congress (including a Democrat-controlled Senate) with extensive bipartisan support at a time when McAuliffe was the chairman of the Democratic Party.